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151. Reverse Words in a String

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Description

Given an input string s, reverse the order of the words.

A word is defined as a sequence of non-space characters. The words in s will be separated by at least one space.

Return a string of the words in reverse order concatenated by a single space.

Note that s may contain leading or trailing spaces or multiple spaces between two words. The returned string should only have a single space separating the words. Do not include any extra spaces.

 

Example 1:

Input: s = "the sky is blue"
Output: "blue is sky the"

Example 2:

Input: s = "  hello world  "
Output: "world hello"
Explanation: Your reversed string should not contain leading or trailing spaces.

Example 3:

Input: s = "a good   example"
Output: "example good a"
Explanation: You need to reduce multiple spaces between two words to a single space in the reversed string.

 

Constraints:

  • 1 <= s.length <= 104
  • s contains English letters (upper-case and lower-case), digits, and spaces ' '.
  • There is at least one word in s.

 

Follow-up: If the string data type is mutable in your language, can you solve it in-place with O(1) extra space?

Solution

reverse-words-in-a-string.py
class Solution:
    def reverseWords(self, s: str) -> str:
        res = []
        curr = ""

        for x in s + " ":
            if x == " ":
                if curr:
                    res.append(curr)
                    curr = ""
            else:
                curr += x

        return " ".join(res[::-1])